Peggy Whitson Quotes

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

Peggy Whitson

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Ambition

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Man
  • Classic

• I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Song
  • Red
  • Ugly

• Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Forever

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Conversation
  • Become

• My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Joy

• Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Expectation

• I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

  

  Kent Beck

• I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Poverty

• While there's life, there's fear.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Life
  • Fear

• Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • High
  • Comedy

• My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Life
  • She
  • Pretty

• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Study
  • Mathematician
  • Engaged

• With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Heart
  • Goal
  • Safe

• I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Remember
  • Rest
  • Forever

• I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

  

  Peggy Whitson